Creepy Unsolved Mysteries - From unsolved murders to unidentified people to unexplained supernatural events, what are some of the creepiest unsolved mysteries you've ever heard of?

[General Patton]

Sheriff's son

From what I read with the local claims, the sheriff at that period was very sleazy and sketchy. It's been a while but I think I read that he covered up corruption in the police force and rapes.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I've mentioned this before but it's believed by a lot of people that Tara Calico died a similar way. She got hit while jogging by a policeman's son and the cops covered it up.

But who were the boy and girl in those photos bound and gagged?

 

[Turquoise]

Yeah, Kendrick is 100% the victim of an incredibly unlikely accident and the family has been convinced by a pack of jackals that there's a payday to be found in it. There's nothing beyond wild speculation and paranoid fantasies to suggest that anything other than falling into a rolled up gym mat was responsible for his demise.

the only "incredibly unlikely" part is that someone was stupid enough to go head first into a tight 2 meter deep space. getting stuck and suffocating was actually quite likely.

 

[Mola Ram]

the only "incredibly unlikely" part is that someone was stupid enough to go head first into a tight 2 meter deep space. getting stuck and suffocating was actually quite likely.

Yes, granted. I know the mats were huge but I'll never understand why he didn't push it over, or just go ask someone for help.

 

[General Patton]

But who were the boy and girl in those photos bound and gagged?

I don't know but I thought that got debunked and ended up not being connected to her.

the only "incredibly unlikely" part is that someone was stupid enough to go head first into a tight 2 meter deep space. getting stuck and suffocating was actually quite likely.

Same with that girl who got drunk and ended up dead in a refrigerator.

 

[Turquoise]

Yes, granted. I know the mats were huge but I'll never understand why he didn't push it over, or just go ask someone for help.

the mat he got stuck in was surrounded by other rolled up mats i believe. he would've had to move them first and they're big heavy things.

apparently it was common for sports players to store their things down there.

 

[Mola Ram]

I don't know but I thought that got debunked and ended up not being connected to her.

It's never been officially debunked as regards Tara, but the boy was suspected to be a missing kid named Michael Henley, whose own mother thought it was him. But Michael's remains were discovered a year or two after the Polaroid surfaced, most likely having wandered off during a camping trip and dying of exposure.

he mat he got stuck in was surrounded by other rolled up mats i believe. he would've had to move them first and they're big heavy things.

apparently it was common for sports players to store their things down there.

I think I also remember something about the faculty having expressly forbidden the students from doing this, which may explain why he tried to retrieve the stuff himself.

 

[General Patton]

But Michael's remains were discovered a year or two after the Polaroid surfaced, most likely having wandered off during a camping trip and dying of exposure.

How many 4/11 missing reports usually end up this way? It's fascinating to read about, but then again it's very easy to disappear in the wilderness.

 

[harmacist]

But who were the boy and girl in those photos bound and gagged?

they were never identified. investigators identified the van as a late 80s white windowless toyota cargo van, which was actually seen where the photograph was discovered by an eyewitness, but that's as far as it went. there were 3 potential photographs of calico, the van one, one with a woman loosely bound with gauze or something on an amtrak train next to a man, and i believe a woman laying on a bed. the doe file used to have all 3 photographs on file but they got rid of the page for whatever reason. nobody in any of the photos have been identified, but the amtrak one looks pretty obviously like some kind of unrelated joke.

Spoiler: found a screenshot of the doe page. the case was changed to "closed", nobody knows why. searching the ID returns a blank page.

a reddit post regarding what i think most likely happened to her. it involves a loser drug dealing son of a corrupt sheriff and a coverup

 

[Well Intentioned]

How many 4/11 missing reports usually end up this way? It's fascinating to read about, but then again it's very easy to disappear in the wilderness.

Quite a bit. Terminal burrowing is a phenomenon that occurs in hypothermia victims which usually ends up with them finding enclosed spaces to curl up and essentially die in and make search and rescue efforts more difficult. Henley's body was found in a thick copse of junipers, and that is likely what happened to him.

There was something about the film used for the polaroid that apparently soft ruled Henley out, too, IIRC.

 

[General Patton]

Quite a bit. Terminal burrowing is a phenomenon that occurs in hypothermia victims which usually ends up with them finding enclosed spaces to curl up and essentially die in and make search and rescue efforts more difficult. Henley's body was found in a thick copse of junipers, and that is likely what happened to him.

Sometimes people also don't see the bodies. This happened when Tyler Goodrich disappeared a few years ago. It turns out he committed suicide by hanging in a tree. People searched the woods for his body for a long time and couldn't locate him. He was found months later still in the tree.

 

[AnOminous]

a reddit post regarding what i think most likely happened to her. it involves a loser drug dealing son of a corrupt sheriff and a coverup

I always viewed the placement of the V.C. Andrews book as a little too staged.

 

[Jean ValJean]

The problem with most true crime stuff is that a lot of it is routine or easily explained if you could see the full picture but we get partial information which invites speculation. Cops can know exactly who did stuff but not have any evidence to convict, so the whole thing gets covered up because its either hearsay or the information targets people who are otherwise untouchable.

Probably the most logical explanation for around 95% of all True Crime unsolved mysteries.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Yes, granted. I know the mats were huge but I'll never understand why he didn't push it over, or just go ask someone for help.

Being a teenager is literally a temporary form of brain damage.

 

[DatBepisTho]

Being a teenager is literally a temporary form of brain damage.

Add in the teenage male propensity for death by misadventure because they miscalculate their overall durability/resistance.

Kid probably thought he wouldn't get stuck upside-down long enough to suffocate (because that's a stupid way to die,) but he died like that anyway.

 

[Ill]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodler

The Doodler is an unidentified serial killer believed responsible for between six and sixteen murders and three assaults of men in San Francisco, California, United States, between January 1974 and September 1975. The nickname was given due to the perpetrator's habit of sketching his victims prior to stabbing them to death. The perpetrator met his victims at gay nightclubs, bars and restaurants.

 

[harmacist]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodler

The Doodler is an unidentified serial killer believed responsible for between six and sixteen murders and three assaults of men in San Francisco, California, United States, between January 1974 and September 1975. The nickname was given due to the perpetrator's habit of sketching his victims prior to stabbing them to death. The perpetrator met his victims at gay nightclubs, bars and restaurants.

california during the 70s must have been really, idk, bizarre? so many active killers and a way different culture in america, namely with normalized hitchhiking. the doodler did a "good" job picking victims, as several were high profile and didn't go forth with criminal proceedings because they didn't want to be outed.

 

[AnOminous]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodler

The Doodler is an unidentified serial killer believed responsible for between six and sixteen murders and three assaults of men in San Francisco, California, United States, between January 1974 and September 1975. The nickname was given due to the perpetrator's habit of sketching his victims prior to stabbing them to death. The perpetrator met his victims at gay nightclubs, bars and restaurants.

Serial killer PROTIP: pick a fetish that gives you such a ludicrous nickname that people are too busy laughing at you to solve your crimes.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodler

The Doodler is an unidentified serial killer believed responsible for between six and sixteen murders and three assaults of men in San Francisco, California, United States, between January 1974 and September 1975. The nickname was given due to the perpetrator's habit of sketching his victims prior to stabbing them to death. The perpetrator met his victims at gay nightclubs, bars and restaurants.

This is one where the cops are pretty sure they know who did it but the people who could identify him didn't want to out themselves so he went free.

 

[Ill]

california during the 70s must have been really, idk, bizarre? so many active killers and a way different culture in america, namely with normalized hitchhiking. the doodler did a "good" job picking victims, as several were high profile and didn't go forth with criminal proceedings because they didn't want to be outed.

Serial killer PROTIP: pick a fetish that gives you such a ludicrous nickname that people are too busy laughing at you to solve your crimes.

This is one where the cops are pretty sure they know who did it but the people who could identify him didn't want to out themselves so he went free.

Supposedly the actor Richard Chamberlain was the victim who refused to testify.